We are pleased to announce that Gustavus Technology Services is providing a CrashPlanPROe online cloud backup service for Gustavus-owned computers.

Once you install CrashPlanPROe, this will back up your data from anywhere you have an internet connection, and is replacing the external (or extra internal) hard drive backup solution. You will no longer need to use the the external backup]]>

We are pleased to announce that Gustavus Technology Services is providing a CrashPlanPROe online cloud backup service for Gustavus-owned computers.

Once you install CrashPlanPROe, this will back up your data from anywhere you have an internet connection, and is replacing the external (or extra internal) hard drive backup solution. You will no longer need to use the the external backup]]>

Benefits

No more email quotas (unlimited email storage]]>

Gustavus Technology Services will be performing network maintenance on critical systems Friday, December 19 at 4:45 p.m. Internet access, email, and the Gustavus website will be unavailable for approximately 45 minutes.

If you have any questions or concerns, please contact the Technology Helpline (

This summer the Gustavus wireless network has undergone several updates to improve coverage, speed and security. In order to further improve our wireless network, we are in the process of modifying the wireless networks available on campus. As soon as possible, please connect your devices to one of the new wireless networks. The new wireless networks available are:

GustavusSecure
This is a secure wireless network that will require your Gustavus email]]>

Microsoft has released a critical security patch for Internet Explorer. We recommend running Windows Update as soon as possible to ensure your computer is protected from this exploit.

If you have any questions about running Windows Update, please contact the Technology Helpline 933-6111 or helpline@gustavus.edu.

If you have any questions or concerns, please contact the Technology Helpline at helpline@gustavus.edu or 507-933-6111.

]]>Friday February 28th between 6:00am and 6:20am, Gustavus Technology Services will be performing planned maintenance on the campus Internet connection.

During the maintenance period, all Gustavus network resources will be unavailable to both on and off campus users. All incoming e-mail will be queued and delivered at the end of the maintenance period.

If you have any questions or concerns, please contact the Technology Helpline at helpline@gustavus.edu or 507-933-6111.

]]>Microsoft is now offering Microsoft Office Pro and Office 365 free to students. We are in the process of setting up the infrastructure required to offer this new service. Stay tuned to learn more.]]>Below are the Technology Helpline hours for Finals Week at Gustavus

Trying to embed a YouTube video within a Moodle Course? Maybe you’re looking to introduce some interactive activities that are available in Moodle, but you’re just not quite sure how or where to start. Or possibly you just have a simple Moodle question related to gradebook. Regardless of your question, we would be happy to help you! Please e-mail

Suppose you wanted to digitize a magazine article or a chapter from a textbook. Maybe you’re putting a great research study article up on Moodle, and you want your students or a fellow colleague to read it. You could spend hours retyping the article, or you could simply scan the article and save it as a PDF. However, you still can’t perform a search, because the PDF is simply a scanned image of the real document. To combat that issue, you can use Optical Character Recognition]]>The newest security updates for the Java Runtime Environment will begin deploying to all computers running Windows today. These fixes will patch security holes in Java that you may have heard about in the news. You will see the image below while the update is running. All internet browsers must be closed to install the update successfully.

If you have any questions, please contact the Technology Helpline x6111.